Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Minnesota took place in the Hotel Ryan, St. Paul, last Monday evening...
...Minneapolis alone, Andover has had an average attendance of late years of some eight or ten men, and yet we find that the number of students in our college from all this district is the same that it was five years ago. We have from the state of Minnesota three men, and this notwithstanding the fact that all that region has doubled in population since that time. Cannot a reason for Princeton's lack of support in this quarter be found in the fact that in all that expanse of country lying Northwest of Chicago, containing the two great cities...
...country, since physiology and the principles of common law are always the same. In journalism every locality demands different work. The requirements as well as the taste of the public must be understood and satisfied. The journalistic knowledge which would suit Boston; for example, would be altogether unsuitable for Minnesota. The two essential characteristics of a journalist in any place are the faculty of "knowing what you don't know," and the faculty of knowing what person to interview for news, this latter being largely a matter of intuition. In almost every public movement, whether religious, political, charitable or social...
...said that college graduates are very numerous in Minnesota, and that " they make very good farmers after they learn the business...
...next year. The first class was graduated in 1883, and the graduates found little difficulty in securing excellent positions as teachers in various schools and colleges. Miss Gregory is a professor of History in Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia; Miss Byrd is a professor of Mathematics at Carleton College, Minnesota, and had charge of the Time Service at the observatory, when changes were made in the standard time last year...